1980 CJ7 Crawler Build

[BobJob42]

Bought my first Jeep, follow me on this journey to making it a mild street driven crawler!

This is how I bought it and everything I know from the previous owner:

1980 CJ7
Factory hard top
4.2 straight six
Howell EFI conversion
T176 trans
D300 T-case
Power Steering
AMC 20 narrow rear
Dana 30 narrow front
4” lift (unknown parts)
1-ton steering
35’s
15” steelies
WARN winch

Things I have done since I bought it:

MORE off-road steering box bracket
MORE off-road steering box frame brace
BDS steering stabilizer
Borgeson HD steering shaft
KC headlights w/ Painless H4 relay harness
Steering wheel

And for the biggest thing, I just ordered a Genright full cage for it! So its about to go into my shop to be gutted and prepped.

 

[jeeeep]

CJ looks to be in good condition

 

[Mike Pierson]

That is nice!

 

[BobJob42]

CJ looks to be in good condition

It’s in pretty good shape, not perfect by any means but it’s all there and rust free

 

[Bullwinckle]

Good Looking CJ!

 

[DirtHeadDavis]

Nice! This will be a cool build for sure

 

[2007 JKU CANADA]

Sweet, will be watching this build

 

[BobJob42]

Came a little early. Things are about to happen but prob a bit slowly on this, I don’t have a ton of time so it will be little bits here and there and I will post along the way!

 

[BobJob42]

Got everything unpackaged and inventoried, going to start prepping the jeep in the next few weeks.

 

[BobJob42]

I got the interior gutted and the carpet pulled, out of all the bolts only one from the driver seat was rusted, hit it with penetrant, a torch and it’s stuck lol. But hey, not bad for a 45 year old Jeep!!

Now to remove the old cage and prep the floor for Raptor liner. Then onto prepping the Genright cage.

 

[BobJob42]

My goal this weekend was to get all the excess carpet and adhesive out and I’ve got about 99% of it gone. Next will be to sand, fix some small surface rust locations and then the Raptor liner.

As soon as the Raptor is applied I will start working on the new cage.

 

[BobJob42]

Got the Raptor on today. It went on really well and is a very forgiving product, really happy with how it went. Using the roll on was also a plus, allowed me to control the product and get the texture I wanted.

Will it last? I don’t know, maybe, maybe not. I did as best as I could with what I had. I used UPOL’s acid etch and adhesion promoter underneath so only time will tell!

 

[GP NOIR]

Wow, what a difference. Looks so much better

 

[BobJob42]

Wow, what a difference. Looks so much better

Thanks!